Devs: Why let Crystal Tower go to waste? Ideas to resurge interest

[Doki]

Like many, I was pretty surprised the devs ignored Crystal tower as part of the relic chain. The queue times are ridiculous, and something like relics would keep it alive for people that have never run it, or are after glamor/minions.

Another idea would be achievements for completing sets of armor drops, sort of like the temple/pirate/mumer set achievements, or raising the tome rewards significantly.

Or you know... add a raid roulette.

Anyone else have ideas?

[Theonekitten]

I agree. Like they did with the older dungeons, they should have included this under a level 50 raid roulette option.

[RiceisNice]

Like many, I was pretty surprised the devs ignored Crystal tower as part of the relic chain. The queue times are ridiculous, and something like relics would keep it alive for people that have never run it, or are after glamor/minions.

Another idea would be achievements for completing sets of armor drops, sort of like the temple/pirate/mumer set achievements, or raising the tome rewards significantly.

Or you know... add a raid roulette.

Anyone else have ideas?

Have them drop a token for each boss cleared, 10 of which can be used to be exchanged for an item corresponding to the raid. You'd get 4 drops for a full clear. It's certainly better to bring life to dead content than solo content that doesn't necessarily encourage player interaction.

[TristanBlane]

ANYTHING to bring back the desire to do those raids would be great. There are so many people still trying to complete the raids now but ques are nonexistent. I'm glad I was able to do those raids back in September when the wait times were only 30-40 mins but now it's really impossible. I feel bad for all the new kids who can't que for them. They were really fun.

[Venom]

maybe a unidentified item drop at the end?

[Alahra]

CT in particular was one of my favorite pieces of content in ARR (I actually wish they'd go back to the rough difficulty level established there, rather than the zerg-fests with largely inconsequential mechanics that most of the fights in the future 24-mans have been—it made the content more engaging!), so I'd love for them to leverage these again. There's a lot of glamour gear I still need to collect from all three, so it would be great to have a reason to run them again.

[Nalien]

I'd really like to see BCNMs added to this game... Sort of like Treasure Maps, I suppose, but better designed and better rewards...

Would double up as a great way to keep old content relevant, too. You'd have Crystal Tower as Lv50 content, but clearing it would get you an Orb to access a Lv60 BCNM with relevant rewards. Similar thing for stuff like Primals, in fact a challenging BCNM against their tribes (similar to the SCNMs actually) would be something I'd prefer, compared to Ifrit (Savage) or something... It would keep Crystal Tower/Primals/etc. alive and well, as people would be farming the Orbs for the new stuff.

Rather than giving old content relevant rewards, old content just becomes a stepping stone to something new, which has relevant rewards. If I was doing Beast Tribe Dailies to enter a special Trial each day, I'd be enjoying Anima a hell of a lot more...

[meldon90]

A raid roulette would be really cool, i'd like to see that happen.

[Vaer]

Add all 4 unidentified items as rewards to the old weekly quest. Can receive one of one type if you do the weekly. Pick and choose.
Maybe add a reasonable amount of EXP to the mobs/bosses so you can level alt jobs but not too much as to snipe players from HW leveling dungeons/roulettes.

It would probably end up as a one and done deal every week for most people but might help queue times.

[enthauptet]

Have them drop a token for each boss cleared, 10 of which can be used to be exchanged for an item corresponding to the raid. You'd get 4 drops for a full clear. It's certainly better to bring life to dead content than solo content that doesn't necessarily encourage player interaction.

I don't mind running the raids over and over again because they are fun for me still but with the extended queue times having some tokens added probably would be nice or maybe double the drops.